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Report: Israel's Syrian Bombing Hit Nuclear Bombs.

Israel Faxx, December, 2007

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By The Sunday Times

Israel=92s top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb facto= ry assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium, a leading Israeli= nuclear expert has told The Sunday Times.

Prof. Uzi Even of Tel Aviv University was one of the founders of the Israel= i nuclear reactor at Dimona, the source of the Jewish state=92s undeclared = nuclear arsenal.

=93I suspect that it was a plant for processing plutonium, namely, a factor= y for assembling the bomb,=94 he said. =93I think the DPRK [Democratic Peop= le=92s Republic of Korea] transferred to Syria weapons-grade plutonium in r= aw form; nuggets of easily transported metal in protective cans. I think th= e shaping and casting of the plutonium was supposed to...

 

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